Stitt Leads Cougars To 89-55 Rout Of Furman

Junior guard Anthony Stitt (Charlotte,
N.C.) scored a game-and season-high 21 points to lead College of Charleston to
an 89-55 rout of Furman on Saturday night at TD Arena.

The Cougars (2-3) snapped a two-game
losing skid prior to traveling out to Southern California next week for the
DIRECTV Wooden Legacy tournament – a field comprised of top teams such as San
Diego State, Creighton, Arizona State and Marquette among others.

CofC won its third-straight against
its former Southern Conference rival Paladins (2-2) in the all-time series –
the first as a member of the Colonial Athletic Association.

The Cougars shot a season-best 56.9
percent from the floor (33-of-58) and had four players score in double figures
including 14 from junior big man Adjehi Baru (Abidjan, Ivory Coast) and 15 from
redshirt freshman guard Canyon Barry (Colorado Springs, Colo.). They led 37-30
at halftime.

Defensively, CofC had one of its best
games of the year holding Furman to a season-low 34.5 percent from the field
and 18.8 percent from beyond the arc. Stephen Croone led the Paladins with 20
points.

Freshman Johnathan Burroughs-Cook
(Memphis, Tenn.) came off the bench and registered a career-high 14 points
including 11 in a second-half run that helped put the game away for the
Cougars.

The Cougars travel next to the Wooden
Legacy over the Thanksgiving holiday break and open the eight-team tournament
with San Diego State (2-1) on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28 at 8:30 p.m. (ET) in
Anaheim, Calif. The game will be televised live nationally on ESPNU.

POSTGAME NOTES

· For the fifth
time this year, the Cougars went with the starting five of freshman Joe Chealey,
junior Anthony Stitt, redshirt freshman Canyon Barry, senior Willis Hall and
junior Adjehi Baru (2-3).

· With the win,
CofC owns on a three-game win streak in the all-time series with Furman, which
is now tied at 41-41. It was the program's first win against its old Southern
Conference rival as a member of the Colonial Athletic Association.

· Anthony Stitt
scored a game-and season-high 21 points against Furman. In all four career games
played against the Paladins (he missed one game with a left hand injury as a
freshman in 2011-12), he has scored in double figures. It marked his sixth
20-point game of his career and was just two points shy of his career high (vs.
UMass on Nov. 26, 2011). Stitt also made a career-best four steals.

· The Cougars
shot a season-high 56.9 percent from the floor (33-of-58) and season-high 45.8
percent from behind the three-point arc (11-of-24) against the Paladins.

· Freshman
Johnathan Burroughs-Cook came off the bench and scored a career-high 14 points going
5-of-6 from the field and 3-of-4 from beyond the three-point arc in just 15
minutes of action.

· The CofC
defense held Furman to an opponent season-low 34.5 percent from the floor
(20-of-58) and 18.8 percent from beyond the arc (3-of-16). It was the Paladins'
worst percentages from either so far this season. They were also held to 55
points which was 15 under its scoring average (70.0 ppg) leading into Saturday
night's contest.

· The Cougars
drained 11 three-pointers in the game which was the second-most of the season behind
12 against Charlotte in the home opener on Nov. 12.

POSTGAME QUOTES

College of Charleston Head Coach Doug
Wojcik

On Anthony Stitt's game …

"He really got himself going
defensively. In the first half, Joe Chealey got two fouls within 11 minutes.
Anthony Stitt played a phenomenal floor game in the first half. We had Terrance
O'Donohue and David Wishon in the game together – you can call it an ‘offensive
set.' They got Johnathan Burroughs-Cook a wide-open three. He (Stitt) showed a
lot of maturity running our team, besides his defense. In the second half, he
scored it and got good looks and got out on the break. The other nice stat is
that he had four steals. For us to play the way we did and for him to get four
steals – he needed that and we needed that."

On defending Furman's Stephen Croone …

"We wanted to pick him up full court.
We wanted to make him work. We wanted to screen him on defense. He still put up
good numbers though. He went 7-of-14 and is a nice player and quick. I thought
Joe Chealey did a good job on him. That was our game plan and it worked pretty
well for us."

College of Charleston Junior Guard Anthony Stitt

On guarding Furman's leading-scorer
Stephen Croone …

"Coming into the game, he was
averaging 27 points per game against Division I teams. I knew it would be a
challenge to slow him down. I pride myself on the defensive end. I knew that if
we could get stops on defense, we could limit them and get out and run in
transition which we are really good at. It helped today when we stopped them.
We had to slow him down. He is the key to their team and took 35 percent of
their shots this year. Slowing him down and having a good game plan really
helped boost us in the second half when we went on our run."

On his play against Furman after a
rough start to the season on offense …

"I was just making shots today. In our
first four games, I was getting good looks that I wanted, I just didn't make
the shots. Like Rick Barry (Canyon Barry's father) told me last year, ‘keep
shooting.' My teammates and coaches believed in me and said, ‘keep shooting.' I
knew they (the shots) would fall eventually, so today just happened to be that
night."

College of Charleston Freshman Guard
Johnathan Burroughs-Cook

On his extended minutes in the game
against Furman …

"I feel like if I can get into the
game, I'll do whatever Coach (Wojcik) wants me to do. If I have to defend, I'll
do whatever it takes to help our team win. Defensively, we worked together as a
unit today. We held them (Furman) under their points per game average and we
executed our game plan."